Boris Johnson has repeated the campaign pledge that Brexit will bring £350 million a week for the NHS. A huge agglomeration of fat, the weight of 11 double-decker buses, is blocking a London sewer, under Whitechapel Road (a museum has offered to display part of it). A University of York linguist has produced a list of 30 forgotten words that might be returned to the language; they include snout-fair, sillytonian, rouker, peacockize, rouzy-bouzy and quacksalver.